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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The CHAT Dataset

"The Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset ... is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat." (Cited from the abstract of Comin and Hobijn 2009).